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Re: dental work

Also, you do not want to have mercury fooled around with (inserted or removed) while BFing.

While it is best to put this off until after you are done BFing, if a mercury filling absolutely MUST be removed, there are some precautions the dentist can take to reduce exposure.

Most local anesthesia disappears from the system relatively quickly. Novocain, for example, has a half-life of 7.7 minutes. It takes about 5 half-lives for something to be completely gone, so it would be out of your system in well under an hour.

Jen

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